Leaving aside  Qadhafi's usual bigoted nonsense I found the follwoing quite funny.

"Libyan Leader Al-Qadhafi's Objection to Mediterranean Union: Libyans Cannot Form a Union with Europeans Who Walk Around Naked"

And how can the Euro's form a union with people who think that blowing oneself up contributes to peaceful coexistence?

This is the real issue, those who have nothing to hide and don't mind showing it verus those who do and are intimidated by nakedness.

Marty,

While you were away, there were some interesting discussions about Iraq back home. I'm wondering if you have anything to say? I'm guessing that if any other Democrat would say the nonsense that Obama is saying every day, you would have something to say.

He'll never be Tony Blair to us.  He's ceased to be a threat on the world stage.  That's enough.  And it took Reagan blowing up his palace and one of his stepchildren (unfortunately) to make him see the light.  He should be a model for the despot.  If the mullahs, Il Jong, Assad, were smart, they'd follow his plan - stop antagonizing the west with threats and nukes and you can rule your land and keep your minions of hot Libyan chicks as your personal bodyguards.

It's good that the US and France is improving relations with Libya.  They've supposedly renounced support of terrorists and we need to show the world that there's not only a price to pay, but a reward for renouncing violence.

Al-Qadhafi would probably respect the Euro-males more if they dressed like females, Euro- or otherwise. Or maybe like Michael Jackson.

jacob, m'boy, stick to the topic at hand.

Qadaffi is a bad guy- a very funny guy, but a bad dude.  It isn't even his support for what we normally think of as terrorism that really gets me, although it obviously does.   What no one mentions is his training of men like Charles Taylor and Foday Sankoh, the rapists and torturers of West Africa.  Qadaffi always swings wildly between pan-Arabism and pan-Africanism, but his idea of being a revolutionary leader caused more misery on that continent than Bob Mugabe could even dream of.   That should be his ulitmate and most damning legacy, if you ask me.  

Also largely forgotten were Qadhafi's intermittent military foray into neighboring Chad, his despatch of goons into Europe and elsewhere to track and murder his domestic political critics seeking assylum, and his pathetic defense of Idi Amin Dada because Amin was a muslim.  

Amin Dada and Qadhafi: a very good matching pair indeed. Btw, Amin, until his death, was protected from irate fellow Ugandans by our "good friends" in Saudi Arabia.

jwl, that smackdown Qadaffi got from Reagan was the first time anybody ever challenged him. Knocked down his bad ass a few pegs, and I think induced his slow mellowing.